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Subject: Re: [OM] pizza, was Re: Oh gawd...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:59:42 -0500
Pizza (or something like it) goes way, way back in history.  However, 
pizza with tomato sauce had to await the discovery of the Americas.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza> since tomatoes are 
thought to originate in South America.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/5/2011 2:04 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> My favorite pizza is the one my friend Lars makes when he comes to
> visit. He makes the dough, and everyone puts whatever toppings s/he
> wants.
>
> I always thought, however, that pizza was invented in the US, by
> Italian immigrants but in the US.
>
> Cheers, Nathan
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> On Feb 5, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>>> BTW, AFAIK, the Italians refer to Chicago style pizza as we would
>>> refer to the food at fairs in the Midwest and South.  The most
>>> flattering comment I ever heard was from some chef who politely
>>> referred to it as "focaccia".
>>
>> Actually, that's probably pretty close to accurate.
>>
>> However, a Pizzeria Uno pizza served inside the original store is
>> unlike anything else in the world.
>>
>> OK, OK, I can't resist this topic...
>>
>> My #1 favorite pizza in the world is Mama Mia's Pizza in Mackinaw
>> City, Michigan. Upstairs is the bridge-builder's museum which you
>> can go through (and watch the film) while your pizza is cooking.
>> It's a cross between NYC and Chicago style pizza. Really, it's a
>> best of both worlds Pizza.
>>
>> My #2 favorite pizza is at the above mentioned Pizzeria Uno in
>> Chicago. It MUST be in the original red-brick building, though.
>> It's the oven and the years of embedded odors which make it
>> different.
>>
>> I don't know if it's a firm #3 or just at this point in the list
>> there are so many wonderful pizzas to choose from, but a Veggie
>> pizza from "Big John's" in Whitehall, Michigan is the way to go.
>> It's much closer to a NYC pizza, but without the acidic pizza
>> sauce. It is almost identical to Tower of Pizza in Quincy,
>> Illinois.
>>
>> Here in Iowa, Pagliai's Pizza has an awesome Margherita Pesto
>> Pizza...
>>
>> Throughout my global travels I've had some mighty good pizzas, but
>> I've noticed that in almost every case, the best ones are served
>> in restaurants with certain types of odors. An Uno pizza, for
>> example, tastes totally different in all the other stores, and the
>> frozen bake-at-home kind taste even different yet. I believe the
>> primary difference has to do with the type of oil used in
>> combination with the type of pan as well as what the walls are made
>> of. It seems that wood paneled walls seem to capture odors and
>> enhance them in some way--probably not unlike whiskeys in oak
>> barrels.
>>
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